Updated Docker images (9.18, 9.20, 9.21) - now based on Alpine Linux

[Ondřej Surý]

What’s the size difference for you?

I mean if someone wants to play with our Dockerfile and there’s a significant reduction is size, I would be convinced. But in a world, where a mobile application that does absolutely nothing has 4 GB, I feel like 130 MB is on the low side of the scale.

Ondrej
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> On 27. 8. 2024, at 19:38, Peter DeVries <pdevries at quotient-inc.com> wrote:
> 
> For what it's worth this is how we build our dockers, with a builder
> and then the runner.  IMO it's cleaner that way and not much more
> complicated.   We'll continue to roll our own though so no real dog in
> this fight.
> 
> Peter
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 1:28 PM Ondřej Surý <ondrej at isc.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>> On 27. 8. 2024, at 18:57, Marc <Marc at f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Afaik  apk del \ does not free up space still.
>> 
>> Right. That was not really my intention though. I wanted to reduce
>> the amount of cruft installed in the image.  The less binary stuff
>> around, the less possible attack surface.
>> 
>> But apk --no-cache should work I guess.
>> 
>>> If you work with builder phase, you can probably shave of some MB's
>> 
>> 
>> I think that's too complicated to use two phases, but I think the next update
>> should reduce the image size a little bit.  It was ~170 MB before and the
>> reduced (compressed) size is 130 MB.
>> 
>> But I get it - the base alpine:latest is only 3 MB, that's quite a difference.
>> 
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